Good morning! In artist Katherine Bradford’s Brooklyn studio, a canvas with two embracing silver-haired women leans against a wall. It’s peaceful, freeing, and undeniably made by the beloved 82-year-old artist, who is on a roll but has a feeling her prime is still a decade away. Senior Editor Hakim Bishara visited her studio for a conversation about this new painting, being a good mentor in a volatile art world, and more. And in the news, Rhea Nayyar writes about an excessive use of police force at Friday’s massive pro-Palestine demonstration at the Brooklyn Museum. We also speak with experts who are sounding the alarm about the erasure of Armenian cultural heritage in Artsakh, where Azerbaijani forces continue destroying sacred religious sites and villages.
Read on for an apt reflection on memory and diaspora in the work of Maia Ruth Lee and, as always, more below. — Lakshmi Rivera Amin, Associate Editor
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“I don’t think anybody believed I could be an artist,” the 82-year-old painter told Hyperallergic in an interview. | Hakim Bishara
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WHAT'S HAPPENING
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Satellite imagery analyses yield evidence of the demolition of a church, cemetery, and an entire village in the last seven months as experts warn of “cultural genocide.” | Rhea Nayyar
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The museum acknowledged that “the police brutality that took place was devastating” but said it did not call the NYPD. | Rhea Nayyar
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MYSTICS & MEMORY
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The 12th-century mystic continues to attract devotees among both Catholic clergy and New Age gurus, Christian traditionalists and radical feminists. | Ed Simon
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Mirroring the work of her linguist parents, Lee crafts a visual language to communicate her diasporic experience with tension and tenderness. | Sigourney Schultz
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FROM THE ARCHIVE
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Hundreds of photographs from the 19th and 20th centuries offer a glimpse at the life of gay men during a time when their love was illegal almost everywhere. | Hrag Vartanian
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IN MEMORIAM
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Margot Benacerraf (1926–2024)
Documentary filmmaker | New York Times
Richard Ellis (1938–2024)
Artist behind the American Museum of Natural History’s blue whale | New York Times
Nonny Hogrogian (1932–2024)
Children’s book illustrator | New York Times
Barry Kemp (1940–2024)
Egyptologist and archaeologist | New York Times
Susanne Page (1938–2024)
Photographer who documented the Hopi tribe and Navajo Nation | New York Times
Bertien van Manen (1935–2024)
Photographer | Blind Magazine
Ben Vautier (1935–2024)
Fluxus artist | Artnews
Roman Verostko (1929–2024)
Digital art pioneer | HOLO |
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